Recommended Reading on Shanghai Tess Johnston - A Last Look (Old China Hand Press 1993). Wonderful portrait of the old western architecture of Shanghai, pictures by Deke Erh. Pan Ling - In Search of Old Shanghai (Joint Publishing Company 1982) Pan Ling - Old Shanghai Gangsters in Paradise. Andre Malraux' - Man's Estate (Penguin 1961). Noel Barber - The Fall of Shanghai - The Communist Takeover in 1949 (Macmillan 1979) J.G. Ballard - Empire of the Sun.